Three Register Model
In his book Teaching Kids to Sing, Ken Phillips describes vocal registration in children at length, providing valuable insight into what is a challenge for every vocal professional. He believes, contrary to the RSCM approach, that trebles have three distinct registers that must be blended during training to ensure vocal health and beauty of tone. Simply put, according to the three-register model, a prepubescent male or female has a lower (G-c), middle (c-c1), and upper (c1-g1—or perhaps c2).
As a boy enters adolescence, he begins to lose the ability to sing in his pure upper register, c1 to c2, as his range in the lower register begins to expand downward. However, boys should continue to exercise the head voice daily through sirens and downward scalar patterns with active breath support and good posture.” Until his voice is more settled (in high school), a boy whose voice is changing should use only pure upper voice from e to c1.
In his book Teaching Kids to Sing, Ken Phillips describes vocal registration in children at length, providing valuable insight into what is a challenge for every vocal professional. He believes, contrary to the RSCM approach, that trebles have three distinct registers that must be blended during training to ensure vocal health and beauty of tone. Simply put, according to the three-register model, a prepubescent male or female has a lower (G-c), middle (c-c1), and upper (c1-g1—or perhaps c2).
As a boy enters adolescence, he begins to lose the ability to sing in his pure upper register, c1 to c2, as his range in the lower register begins to expand downward. However, boys should continue to exercise the head voice daily through sirens and downward scalar patterns with active breath support and good posture.” Until his voice is more settled (in high school), a boy whose voice is changing should use only pure upper voice from e to c1.